Objekt 9
Sitting Monkey, playing the Violin
Object description
Musical automaton
Maker unknown
Paris (?), 2nd half of 19th c.
Music-mechanism in the base; aria from Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber. Silk-dress with gold buttons; jewellery; inside the body six threads operated by excenter for the head, the eyes, the lower jaw and the right arm.
Purchase
Inv. 1936.59.